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I was wondering how Karma is enforced in Buddhism. Is there a deity who is in charge of the calculation of Karma? Buddhism migrated from India to Tibet where it took on aspects of indiginous beliefs such as the animism of Bon Po. As such, water has the power to calculate karma, because like karma w...

Here's a parallel reference to karma enforcement: https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?p=693591#p693591 English is not my first language, so I could understand half of what they were saying! Well, I'm not going to transcribe the dialogue, so I guess you’ll have to take my word for it … the...

So time has a beginning? Sure it has. How can time have a beginning without having to begin to exist? Time cannot begin to exist, by this I mean that it does not exist and then exists, since this is a change and any change requires time. This leads to an infinite regress that is logically impossibl...

commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:24 pm

bahman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:36 pm

commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:31 pm

Isn’t the beginning of time the time when time began? Your words, not mine.

No that is not what I said above but that is correct. By begin to exist I mean it does not exist and then exist.

So time has a beginning?

Sure it has.

Walker wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 5:28 pm

bahman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:11 pm...

Here's a parallel reference to karma enforcement:
viewtopic.php?p=693591#p693591

English is not my first language, so I could understand half of what they were saying!

I was wondering how Karma is enforced in Buddhism. Is there a deity who is in charge of the calculation of Karma? The whole idea is an invention to make people take responsibility for their actions and as an explanation of who people are born unequally- either economically, physically or mentally. ...

Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:44 pm

bahman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:10 pm I think that if Karma is true then there must be at least a person in charge of it.

Well, you've got the makings of your own ontology/causality, but it'll be different from Buddhism.

Correct, but Karma looks like magic in the absence of a person who takes care of it.

It's another variation of the teleological thought-police like religion, and it falls apart when u examine it. Consider this. If i steal Joe's wallet, am i accruing bad karma? Well wait a minute. Joe musta done somethin bad himself if he got his wallet stolen, right? He's got bad karma, so his wall...

I was wondering how Karma is enforced in Buddhism. Is there a deity who is in charge of the calculation of Karma? You mean the Karma Cop and the Karma Accountant? Both. Both can be one person though. - For honest calculations, we know that two should be in charge of income and expenditures, one for...

I was wondering how Karma is enforced in Buddhism. Is there a deity who is in charge of the calculation of Karma? It's better to think of it as, if you do X and have the attitude (hardness) that goes along with this you will attract, metaphorically as if you have an electric charge, something that ...

commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:31 pm

bahman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:51 pm Time cannot begin to exist by this I mean it cannot come into existence. It however has a beginning.

Isn’t the beginning of time the time when time began? Your words, not mine.

No that is not what I said above but that is correct. By begin to exist I mean it does not exist and then exist.

Why do you involve me? In reality one of the above statements is correct. That's not useful. Which one? It is useful. If your measurement equipment is not precise enough to distinguish between 0 and an infinitesimal you could be erroneously dividing by 0 in your equations. We cannot possibly measur...

You still have not got my point and has to clue [not necessary agree with] to what I am trying to convey. I don't expect you will ever do. The most you can claim is We know about the evolution [common and in the scientific realist's sense] of less than 100 years. Evolution is an inferred scientific...

There is no need to print and read anything. Everything is working based on the laws of nature. Yes, there is a problem if you want to simulate reality to infinite precision. That's hardly a problem for me - it's a problem for you. Assume two infinite precision numbers: X: 0.000...???... and Y: 0.0...

Again you missed my point. You should relax and suspend judgment a bit. What you are saying above is like, if hunger and the digestive system are universal [a fact that it is universal] then 100% should eat the same food and the same manner. if the sexual drive is universal [a fact that it is unive...